/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1203575
any of the super mario games :( my parents said it was too pleb

Castlevania
Doom
Quake
Goldeneye
Twisted Metal
to name a few
in the 90s my mother went through a hardcore conservative Christian phase in her life

>>1203575

Never really experienced this! My dad was pretty lax about these things, and the few things he did disallow, I still got to play somehow, either by my own trickery or having friends with lax parents.

Of course, this also got me nightmares in the long run thanks to Resident Evil 2, so your mileage may have varied.

>>1203582
Has she gone back to reality yet or is she still a believer of fantasy stories?

>>1203616

*tips fedora*

Upvote for you, good sir.

>>1203616
High quality post.

>>1203616
She's a non-denominational protestant now. Believes in evolution and the like if you want to know.

wasn't allowed to play South Park for N64, Goldeneye, or Duke Nukem 64. Mom hated South Park's humor and she also didn't want me playing games with guns.

Conker's Bad Fur Day, I was 10 when it was released.

>>1203651

well, you dodged a bullet with the south park game. unless you like throwing snowballs a turkeys for 2 hours.

I haven't played SP in over 10 years, so 2 hours might be a bit of an exaggeration

>>1203575
My dad had a problem with me playing Kirby games when I was little, fortunately for me he died.

>>1203674
>My dad had a problem with me playing Kirby games

wat

>>1203674
Did he think they were girl games?
>fortunately for me he died.
Uhhh

>>1203683
My dad was a really old school southern man, and he thought playing as a moe pink blob would turn me queer or some shit (it hasn't)

>>1203683
Well, Kirby -is- pink and cute and generally "girly" looking, so he'd be forgiven for thinking they're girl games. Of course, we all know that Kirby games are manlier than a majestic wizard beard.

As for games I wasn't allowed to play as a child, Carmageddon and the Mortal Kombat series are the only examples that spring to mind; and although I have since played both, I don't feel like I missed out.

>>1203582
>Castlevania
>using the power of the cross to destroy evil
>bad

I wasn't allowed to have video games at all as a child. I remember a friend of out family gave my brothers and I their old NES when either the SNES or the 64 came out, and my dad hid it then sold it at a garage sale. I still don't know why he hated games so much, he would never explain it and would always get pissed off if we asked. Then again, he'd get pissed about pretty much everything, so it may have just been another way of him expressing his unbridled rage.

>be 8
>Dad buys Unreal Tournament
>watch him playing it
>body parts flying around, pixel blood and death cries
>Mom catches us enjoying the game
>not allowed to get near it anymore
>one night Mom is on a business trip
>Dad cooks my favorite meal for dinner and tells me to turn on his old pc
>he sits on his pc next to me
>play Unreal Tournament until I get too tired and he carries me to bed
2 years later my parents get a divorce and Mom gets most of his money

My parents banned me from playing video games because I was failing classes, mainly because I didn't do homework. I continued to not do most of my homework and had to play vidya behind my parent's backs for 5 years. It was always a constant struggle of finding where they hid the power cords/controllers/handhelds and reclaiming them until I was caught.
Eventually I got a job, moved the fuck out and now I can play all the video games I want but spend all day on 4chan. help

I was allowed to play Pokemon, but a whole bunch of mothers around me believed that shitty jargon about it being satanist, warlike, promoting cockfighting, etc.

Also I was never allowed to play Mortal Kombat because of how violent it was. But I could play Doom all I liked.

I wasn't allowed to play Age of Empires because I'd go full autist on it and play for hours without a break.
When I got nightmares of having not enough resources and apparently shouting the peasant language in my sleep they deinstalled it

>>1203715
Why would you need help? You got a job and can support yourself.

>>1203727

He needs help getting motivated to actually all those games. It's the typical "have everything, play nothing" scenario.

>>1203740

Actually play*

>>1203715
Sucks

>>1203575
Strip Poker for the Commodore 64. Because I was 7. Duh.

>>1203703
was he a drinker?

>>1203713
theres always a party pooper. am i right?

>>1203575
Absolutely none.

>>1203797
Not at all, he's just a very very angry person. My brothers and I are all grown up and out of the house now (except my oldest brother), and he's mellowed out a bit, but he still has a crazy temper.

I had ZERO game restrictions growing up. I even had some FMV poker games featuring porn stars (mmm, Celeste) on PC cdrom; my parents had no idea.

>that game you weren't allowed to play

Never had to go trough this, thank God. My parents were and still are completely video game illiterate, so I had total freedom to play what ever I wanted, and it never occurred to them that they should stop me somehow. Cool times.

My parents were actually really cool about video games. They were the ones that actually got me into it in the first place.

My dad was the one that showed me Doom for the first time.

>>1203575

My younger brother has Autism Spectrum Disorder and is prone to imitating things he sees on film.

So, my mother banned me from playing Bully while I was at their house.

She was worried it would turn my brother into a bully.

But she was OK with him playing Grand Theft Auto

>>1203575
yo?

Conker's Bad Fur Day for me. My brother and I wanted to rent it from Blockbuster, but mom looked at the back of the box and saw Conker pissing and the Great Mighty Poo and she wouldn't let us get it.

>>1203575
None

Although my parents frowned upon the usuals like Mortal Kombat and Doom and such, they never barred me from playing anything.

I did hang out with another friend once in a while who's family was super christian and I was talking about Samurai Showdown on my Genesis and his dad pulled me aside and told me that if I played those kind of games enough I would eventually be desensitized and not care if anybody in real life was killed.

I heard rumors that he got violent arcade games like MK and Time Killers pulled from the local pizza joints.

>>1203865

Let's be fair. It's easier to do what you can do in Bully than it is in GTA.

Not that I think it would have mattered or anything. I'm just saying that Bully is a lot more down to earth than GTA. Aside from Jimmy having the stamina of a demigod.

On a vacation, we went somewhere where there was a Primal Rage machine. By the time my mom discovered it was about violently ripping apart dinosaurs, I already had a look of pure joy on my face that she just couldn't say no to. She never really banned any games after that; if anything, she would try the games herself just to see what all the fuss was about.

Zelda Ocarina of Time.
"It's a violent war game kids shouldn't be playing that"

Yoshi's Story
"Why would you want to play this its clearly a game for faggots, are you gonna grow up to be a cocksucker, son?"

Mission Impossible for N64, played it with some random kid during a party at someone's place years later.

Never owned a Mortal Kombat game as well.

>>1204003
ur dad just wanted u to play football and nascar games

>>1204020
Wow flashback all of a sudden
>1998 or whenever, be like 7
>hey mom can I get this game
>Mission Impossible for N64
>no that's too violent
>is it?
>yeah there's sex and gore in it, it's a bad game for bad people

No videogames. Parents said no to mtv. In retrospect, I don't really blame them. That shit rots your mind worse than here.

Pokemon

A game I wasn't allowed to play? No such thing. I was always the right age that video games were made specifically for me. I didn't have a serious computer until I was like 14 and that was the first time I was able to download adult material from local BBSs. Also perfect, especially considering the quality and availability were both pretty low.

I think it's kinda hypocritical that people are so concerned about video game violence, in a country where football coaches and players make millions of dollars and get away with violent crimes.

My mother was cool with video games. But then again she was hilariously lenient for a child.

>>1204241
I think this image will explain everything.

>>1204241
>implying were all american

also can't talk shit about handegg its a holy grail

Deus Ex

>>1203582
This and nothing with blood in it.
LoZ because "it had magic"
FInal Fantasy "magic is EVIL"
also DBZ because of "powers"
Even Captian Planet was objectionable it had "elements = magic"
Around age 14 she lightened up though, even bought me Resident Evil 2.

>>1204267
>Even Captian Planet was objectionable it had "elements = magic"

This one I can actually agree with. Captain Planet is pretty blatantly trying to push a religious/political agenda. It's like Jack Chick for neopagans.

None. Both of my parents are big fans of Doom. They never tried to interfere with either games or TV.
Overall I'm thankful for it, but seeing Ginga Nagareboshi Gin at about three years old made me afraid of bears for the longest time (and seeing The Edge made it even worse).

>>1204267
>Even Captian Planet was objectionable it had "elements = magic"
I... what?

>>1204290
I had to be talked to before I got to watch The Sword in The Stone to make sure that I knew that "wizards aren't real".

>>1204290
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca

One time I went to my Uncle's house in Rhode Island and he had a Super Nintendo (which to this day I don't own). At the time I loved Star Fox 64 and never knew there was one for the Super Nintendo, but my Uncle wouldn't let me play it because I was still a kid.

I begged for Conker's Bad Fur Day but it was more about my parents not wanting to spend money on it than the content. At least I can enjoy it now on emulator cause I'm not paying some of the outrageous prices they want for it now.

Doom.

Played it anyway at a friends house, he had some weird mod that replaced all the demon sounds with cursing in spanish.

There's only one game I can think of, and that's Bad Mojo.

It wasn't exactly my parents banning it, but my big brother was talking about it and I wanted to try it. He said no a few times, I insisted I wanted to try it, and then he told me you have to climb on a giant, real-looking dead rat that will suddenly come alive and eat you if you go near its head.
I didn't want to try it anymore after that.

We played it together not too long ago, but I still covered my eyes during the areas with all the rat corpses. What can I say, I love rodents...

>>1204297
I haven't seen Captain Planet in like 15 years. I assumed they meant scientific elements = magic

>>1203674
Did you walk in on him giving your mom a blowjob while playing Pinball Land?

This one, for obvious reasons.

The first game I ever played was Marathon, right when it came out, my dad had picked up a brand spankin new PowerMac and grabbed Marathon to go with it. He watched me play it for about 5 minute before he decided it was too violent for me and I was barred from using the computer. He fucking loved it though and ended up getting 2 and Infinity. A few years later he stopped giving a shit and I played all of them. Still got the boxes.

I was visiting my dad for the summer, and his friend let me borrow his PS1 and some games, including Resident Evil 2. I was about to beat it, but then his other pot smoking asshole friend takes the PS1 from my room, and plays it for my dad. He takes the shotgun and shot a zombie in two. My dad flips out and takes it away.

Went back home to my mom's and she had Castlevania SOTN waiting for me.

Wulf3d
Grand Theft Auto (the first one)

I played them anyways of course.

Back when we first got a DOS PC (1990, had Tandy before that), we bought a few SEGA games on 5¼ floppy. One of them was Shinobi, and my parents erased the disk because they felt it was a bit too violent. I still have it in a disk catalog...

>>1203575
post Columbine my mom wouldn't let me near any fps game, period. I finally got my dad to buy me half life episode 1, I didn't really care about the single player, I just wanted it so I could play HL2 Deathmatch, and boy was that ever sweet coming from someone unable to even play doom at home without being chewed out

I was allowed to play them... but my mother was always disappointed if I played RPGs. She said they were boring and for faggots. She didn't understand!

>>1203575
Mortal Kombat and Spawn

>>1204362
>Mom said RPGs are for faggors

>>1203720

>>1204071
>it's a bad game

She did the right thing, anon.

I've had fond memories of going to the video store picking out a really cool looking game box for the NES. Then taking it to my mom and asking her if it was a hard game. I probably dodged a few bullets but I also probably missed out on gems. I used to cry if I couldn't figure out what to do and cause a tantrum. ghostbusters and the superman game were the two offenders I can recall. I also pitched a fit and brokedown in tears after trying to beat the first two minutes of starfox for the snes

when doom came out, i wasnt allowed to get it (was seven years old). about a year or so later my parents got it for me on my birthday

My dad used to play games on PS every night and the family would gather around and watch him play. Among the games, he played Silent Hill, Resident Evil and whatever other horror game was out at the time. I would not play any game, not because they didn't allow me to, I mean, he played those game for me to watch, but I just did not like playing myself. So no, they never had a problem with me playing any game at all. I even remember my dad playing a cartoonish porn game with my uncle on the PC and would watch them. No homo.

I was never prohibited from watching or playing anything whatsoever, but I was routinely made fun of for playing games with "bad graphics" (like strategy games). Both my mo and pops would stand behind me and parody Warcraft II unit speech until I got mad and quit, every single time.

But no, I was never prohibited from playing anything. Was also shamed for supposedly staring at Syndicate dummies at the research screen - pops offered me real porn instead of looking at those. I said, "No, it's research, I watching RESEARCHED," and he laughed his ass off right then and there, even thogh I wasn't actually lying.

>>1203575
Never had any problem with that, I could play anything. I remember once when I was 10 and 11 I was playing Duke3D and my sister went to tell my mother that "I was pressing the spacebar so that the girls show their boobs in the game". My parents didn't even say anything.

So I play Doom, Duke3D, Resident Evil, etc at the age of 10

In a weird way I also remember them not letting me watch the movie Seven with them...

>>1204304
This poster sounds feminine as fuck.

I remember when I was like 3-4 years old, I would often watch my dad play stuff like Duke3D, Diablo and Carmageddon, which my mother didn't exactly approve of, though she didn't really stop me. IIRC though, she banned him from playing Carma and Duke with herself or me around. Diablo was OK though.

Later on my dad's violent game of choice was Unreal Tournament, which I didn't really bother to watch him play since I was wrapped up with my own games, but my mother still made a bit of a fuss about it. Being the wuss I was, I didn't bother to actually play any FPSs or games with a rating higher than "Teen" until I was about 12. At that point, my mother didn't really care.

The first FPS I ever played was Timesplitters: Future Perfect. I went back and played all of the old classics like Doom, Quake, Duke, etc. after realizing how much I enjoyed it.

>>1203575
Well, for most of my life, shit was pretty good...I played duke64, doom64 and the RE games by the time I was 10 or 11...however, when I was about 13 or so, my mom and I had to move in with my uncle for financial reasons.
My uncle happened to be a fundamentalist preacher...

under his house rules, these things got banned as I introduced them:

>pokemon
created by the heathen japanese, pokemon are really oni, which the pokemon trainer is summoning. Therefore, this is a game about summoning demons, and it has "evolution" in it...a big no no.
Also, his kids sucked at it, and I didn't...he wanted to keep them from feeling bad whenever I pwn't them
Made me take all of my pokemon stuff and destroy it...yelled at me and my mom for selling off my games at gamestop because I was "spreading the devil".
>zelda
banned for featuring goddess-centric polytheism. before I was made to destroy my LoZ games, I hid them all and claimed I lost them. They remained hidden the whole 3 years we lived with him, and I felt like a liberated jew the day we moved and I could play OOT again.
>harry potter
Harry Potter is fagshit in my opinion anyway, but he banned it because magic. Oddly, he supported LOTR, even though that was almost 1:1 germanic polytheism.
>Return to Castle Wolfenstein
I was only allowed to play this if none of his other kids were in the room because it was rated M, and only I had ever played M games before.
>RE series
It has "evil" in the title...it must be of satan!
>yu-gi-oh in general
much more obvious "summon the demons" game. banned for similar reasons to pokemon
>Anime/anime based games in general
Generally, the excuse was that those dirty shintoist japanese put references to their heathen magics in things like DBZ, and for totally 100% atheistic sci-fi anime, well, too much sex/violence/nihilistic mumbo for a good christian boy to watch/play
The funniest rule in his house about games, though:
>anon plays last
I was better than his kids...I lasted longest.

Eternal Champions.
Playing it years later, I'm glad my parents kept me from playing a shitty fighting game.

>>1204362
How ironic, my parents both enjoyed RPGs back in the day. My dad was even big on the early Final Fantasy games, and he's about the last person you'd expect to be interested in them, considering his dislike of anime and most things related to it.

>>1204341
Marathon is the shit.that atmosphere

>>1204605
Marathon>Doom

>>1204607
I just hope you mean that in terms of the original executables...

zdoom>aleph one

>>1204475
>rather listen to your low life dad who supports your shut in psychopathic behavior than to your mom who wants you to get a happy life which i'm absolutely sure you would rather have than your current life

>>1204607
Doom is awesome when you got 15-30 minutes of time to kill

Marathon have more consistency and a good story, keeps me occupied for longer, doom feels flat after a few levels.

Also Marathon Infinitys multiplayer is better

>>1204615
B..but...I like being a psychopathic shut-in.

>>1204617
I like both as different sorts of games, but I had a slightly deeper enjoyment for doom.

In marathon, although plot = fucking amazing, whenever I end up ragequitting in marathon, it's because of the map design...I get lost looking for a switch inna maze, and just get bored of it.
I go on long "fuck the maze" hiatuses from mthon because of this...

My doom rage quits simply inspire me to play it harder the next time I pick it up, because in doom my rage comes from my lack of ripping and tearing hard enough.

It's a "mario vs. zelda" sort of thing. I love "zelda" more, but when I fail at it, it's a matter of having to think in complex ways, rather than sheer dexterity...I'm already investing my thought in anything from a programming project, to a mod project to simple household management things...I don't like burning my brain out...so I return to "mario" more.

>>1204613
I don't even consider Zdoom to be Doom. It's able to play the same WADs, but the engine is much different under the hood, and it allows for things like mouselook, scripting, true 3D, etc.

I'll still fire up my old Doom II IWAD on it from time to time, but it's not the same as playing the original DOS engine on a 486 with FM synth music and keyboard controls.

>>1204629
>true 3D

actually, no. Only GZDoom is capable of this, but other than this, you're sorta correct.

Zdoom is basically Hexen (doom+a new map format) + some new scripting features + some new pseudo3d features. 90% of what people label as "zdoom only" can realisitcally be run under hexen...it's only when you get into gzdoom shit (like dynamic lighting, shaders, etc) that you end up breaking away from the original doom-family engines.

The real major difference IMO: map format. Hexen's map format includes a few bits more metadata for linedefs and things that allow for more complicated actions...doom does not, and is technically incompatible. Zdoom bridges this by essentially allowing hexen to read doom-format maps.

>>1204640
I guess I was getting ZDoom confused with GZDoom then.

Just thinking about it now, I used to play a bit of Skulltag and ZDaemon, and ZDaemon, which is ZDoom-based, felt a lot more like a "true" Doom engine than Skulltag, which is GZDoom-based.

>>1204653
the "g" really only has to do with the renderer. GZDoom = openGL-ZDoom...that's where the true 3d comes into play. Skulltag (and GZDoom, for that matter) when run with the flag +vid_renderer 0 will operate in software rendering mode, which doesn't use true 3d either -- it's essentially zdoom like that.

Goldeneye

Well, I was allowed to play it, but I think after Columbine my dad made me sell it. It was the only time my dad had any problem with me playing violent video games which makes it seem all the more weird that he did that.

I eventually got another copy when I worked at Blockbuster a several years later.

Ironically, he had no problem with me playing Doom since you're not killing humans.

I wasn't allowed to play Street Fighter 2 until I was 10 because 'fighting is bad'

>>1204428
So you were that selfish kid who had to ruin it for everyone else.

Once when I played Battletoads & Double Dragon mom said that those kind of games "dumb people down". But as long as I got high grades, everything was OK. That's it.
Non retro: "what kind of numbers are you playing with here?" is her reaction on DoomRL. Funny for me, since "playing with numbers" is kinda local meme of our DF community.

I was allowed to play everything because my mother was only concerned about stuff on TV. Some brutal movie on TV? Not allowed. Uncensored Turok 2? Yeah sure, whatever.

None, because my parents weren't retarded and had good parenting skills.

None because my dad was cool and knew I wasn't an impressionable retarded child.

None, because my Dad was retarded and knew I had impressionable parental skills

>>1204581
You sound like an asshole. And like you are 13 years old

>>1203910
man, christian parents were the worst. My next-door neighbor and I practically stopped hanging out after his parents barred him from playing Pokemon cards for some retarded reason I can't remember. Not that we were that close anyway, but that more or less ended our time spent together.

And of course there's the other friend of mine whose parents wouldn't get him anything Harry Potter or any Zelda game because of witchcraft. I just can't understand these people.

>>1204840
Cant blame him for being a little bitter

>>1204038
lol

I was always allowed to play any game I wanted, regardless of content.

They did, however, forbid me from watching Beavis & Butthead after I learned the word "stupid" from it. Apparently saying "that's stupid" was a grave offense or something.

Luckily I never had this kind of problem. Since I was a child my parents played fighting and action games with me, like Mortal Kombat and Lethal Enforcers for example.

Went to the store with my dad and bought SotN and MGS. When I was playing MGS I got to the part where sasaki got knocked out and the censor bar was over his underwear. My dad picked up the case and peeled off the modified ratings sticker. Saw partial nudity tag and threw the game inside his glove box in the car. Got it back 10 years later and the case was slightly melted. If only I had it as a child ):

This isn't quite retro but it involves a totally chill /vr/ dude that had my back.

>Be 11
>Wanting to rent GTA 3 from Hollywood Video
>"Are you aware this game has hurr durr blah blah blah miss?"
>"I did hear a lot of bad things about this game anon...."
>Customer next in line speaks up and laughs "They said the same thing about Mortal Kombat when I was a kid, I think he'll be fine"
>He goes on to explain the game to my mom telling her how goofy it is
>We leave with the game

The entire amazing GTA filled week that awesome dude never left the back of my mind.

>>1204256
I'm sorry for your loss.

>>1204339

>7th Guest
>Can't play a game that has anything to do with the devil
I was mildly annoyed. After I realized my early cable modem access gave me unfettered access to newsgroups and all the vidya and pr0n, I didn't give a single crap.

>>1205782
7th Guest was great. Couldn't get sequel because of sex.

>>1204840
sorry about it, but my hatred for my uncle isn't just because he didn't let me play certain games. the man was an extremely overzealous christian who loved using religion to simply fuck with us kids.

Every night, prayer was compulsory, which is fine, but he'd also make you openly confess your sins in front of him and all of his other kids, and if you didn't have anything specific to confess at least once a week, you'd get in trouble (usually banned from games, or forced to stay inside and read the bible all day after school).

he'd also force us to engage in little allegorical religious "games" that demonstrated why humans were flawed shit and why they needed jesus in order to not go to hell.
>tells us all to go stand in front of the TV
>"the TV will represent god"
>starts naming benign things
>"son, were you angry at any point today"
>his son answers yes
>step back from the TV
>once we were all on the other side of the room, from stepping back because of "minor sins" like anger, jealousy, lying etc
>"this is what sin does to you; it seperates you from god; this is how far from god you are in just one day of sinning. do you see why you need jesus now?"

he was also extremely biased in meting out punishment. it went
his daughters>his son>me

I beat his son in a card game once. his son tells on me; claims I cheated. I get the belt for "cheating", no questions asked.
His son complains about something unfair that happend I school. I remark "man, that's gay". Get the belt for saying "gay" in front of his kids, because he'd rather them not even know that word exists.
Get an A- on a wrtiting assignment. Yelled at. Get a B...belt.

It got to the point that I didn't even want to interact with anyone in the house. He wouldn't allow me to even leave the yard though, and on school days, video games were banned, so most of my time was spend outside in his driveway dribbling a soccer ball while walking in a circle, trying to avoid everyone.

>>1205994
2/2
living with him was a scary, egg-shell walk, and it had me really fucked up for several years after leaving that house...if I sounded like an asshole because of how I remarked on his banning games, then sorry, but you gotta realise that I hate the man for more than simply banning games.

metal gear solid when it was new cause my mom heard that strip search joke snake makes to naomi lol

>>1206007
i agree with you for hatin him for using religion to manipulate you.
thats a peeve of mine as well

I wasn't allowed to play most M rated games with a few exceptions at the time. However the one that pissed me off the most was Banjo Kazooie. That's right i wasn't allowed to play Banjo fucking Kazooie, my mom even went to my friends house and convinced his mom to throw away the copy she just bought. I watched her throw the cartridge into the trashcan like it was nothing

>>1206051
>Banjo Kazooie

why? just...why?

>>1206053
Because there was a witch in the game. That's the only explanation i ever got.

>>1206051
Why are moms such nazi/muslim level fascists. Is there some unknown transformation after giving birth

>>1206075
that's a nice generalization you got there

>>1206081
Maybe, but do you see fathers doing that as often as mothers?

nature vs. nurture

>>1206081
Obviously i dont think all moms are like that, mr. literal. But my mom and all the moms i knew growing up were. And all the dads were totally chill aboit games.

>mom doesn't want me playing doom
>dad just deletes the desktop shortcut
>learned enough DOS from watching him to find the .exe manually
felt good man

I wasnt allowed anything violent, like shooters or beat em ups like street fighter 2 or turtles in time because she would see me pretend kung fuing at the air afterwards, and I guess this freaked her out.
I wasnt allowed to play anything remotly violent until I was around 13 or so.
of course I played turtles in time, goldeneye, perfect dark and half life in secret with my bro in secret
shit was cash as fuck

I wasnt allowed anything violent, like shooters or beat em ups like street fighter 2 or turtles in time because my mom would see me pretend kung fuing at the air afterwards, and I guess this freaked her out.
I wasnt allowed to play anything remotly violent until I was around 13 or so.
of course I played turtles in time, goldeneye, perfect dark and half life in secret with my bro
shit was cash as fuck how it added that bit of BREAKING DUH LAW magic to it

Marathon and Pathways into Darkness.

For as long as I can remember, we had this bundle of categorized CDs with demos/trials called the Mac Cube. I was allowed to play pretty much any of those demos (mainly arcade games like Cyclone and Maelstrom, or adventure games like TaskMaker and Exile) except for M-thon and PiD, after two similar experiences.

I think Marathon may have been the first to go, I remember the Pfhor looking a lot more sinister, like dark silhouettes with only the red eyes showing. I somehow made it all the way down the first hallway to the half-open door, where I eventually hit the floor, and I could see the two aliens' feet skittering back and forth. Oblivious to the fact I had just been beaten to death with shock staffs, I asked my mom how to restart the game, but she decided I shouldn't play it. So I didn't!

Pathways is basically the same story, but I think it affected me more, being a darker, lonelier atmosphere, with more grotesque monsters. The player also moves very slowly, but at the time it seemed like the monsters could move really fast. I remember struggling to gun down the first Headless with the Walther, and eventually heading down a ladder to find Zombies. I tried backing up into the ladder to climb to the ground floor again, but I was too young to react very quickly, and before I knew it, the Zombie's red eyes were right up in my face (I hardly even remember dying). I was rather terrified; even having the occasional nightmare about the game. In much the same fashion as M-thon, I was kept from playing this game as well.


So about 15~ years later, I decide to try 'em both out again, and it turns out they're not so bad. Marathon is awesome, but Pathways is still pretty hard without a guide; it would be a few years (and story page reads) before I bothered to finally beat the game.

I didn't play two of my (now) favorite games for most of my life, but I ain't mad. Reverof Nohtaram.

My isn't tech savy and didn't know enough about video games to know which game was which. So we pretty much played what we wanted. Now of course I realise this is the problem with parents today letting their kinderbrats play stuff like GTA. My 8 year old nephew has already been taken aside by the teacher in school for discussing violent stuff in GTA with other kids. My sister thought Vice City was ok for little kids because the cover had comic book style art. Toss in a tantrum over the game and the kid's already gone through two copies. I'm not one to think that kids who throw tantrums over games should get said games. Let alone a second copy after they ruin the fist one with scratches and stickiness.

>>1206671
*my mother isn't tech savy

>mfw i was 8 yrs old and my parents let me have turok 2 for n64 and never questioned me

>>1203575
Resident Evil, this was when I was young and that game did scare the shit out of me when watching my father play it.

Also Metal Gear Solid for some reason I never quite understood.

>>1203705

That was the only game I wasn't allowed to rent either.

I was over at a friends house with my Ocarina of Time cart right at the part where King Zorra is telling you about "Lord" Jabu Jabu. Friend's mom tells me to stop playing and not bring the game anymore because it promotes false gods.

It was a flash game, late 90's, where you were a pimp and had to do all these leisure sure larry type puzzles or something.
I played it anyway.

Doom

>>1203575
got umk3 when i was like 7, i have no regrets

>>1203582

My mom didn't know that Goldeneye would be violent. She thought it was just going to be lame spy shit. If she had known, she wouldn't have gotten it for me. She figured, it was too late so I could keep it.

My mom had no problem with me playing really violent games or watching gory, homoerotic 80s action movies, and she never forwarded through sex scenes or anything. She let me watch sleazy, ultraviolent 90s VHS anime.

But I was, under no circumstance, to EVER watch Ren and Stimpy or Beavis and Butthead. I had a weird mom.

I remember playing this game called 'Manhunt' on ps2.

Parents walked in on me executing someone with a steel wire to the point of decapitation, and I'm surprised they let me keep playing it. Some reason they didn't want me playing GTA games though

Wolfenstien 3D was the only one, and only my mom let us not play it. I remember one time she went out for the evening, and we had a blast playing it. He gave us the typical speech that this is something that isn't grounded in reality, but historically we did fight the bad guys. After the speech, he let us play. I think I'm gonna do the same for my kids when they grow a little bit. Thing is, now infants basically a week out of the womb are of fucking apple ipads. It's so fucking obnoxious at this point, so it's gonna be hard to coordinate that shit.

Also, I had a friend in school who's mom didn't let him play dig dug for some retarded ass reason and we always made fun of him for it.

>>1203718
but it DOES promote cockfighting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAdGv89e0sE

My parents restricted the way I could dress, the music I could listen to, the movies I could watch, my friends, and a whole lot more. Yet, for some reason, they never cared about the games I played. Not even after that whole columbine thing, where my favorite game at the time, Doom, was being criticized as a cause for the incident.

I could never play Killer Instinct as a kid or even be in the room while my older brother played it. I wanted to know what it was like so much, especially because of the cool black cartridge.

>>1204867

I had a friend who's parents were the typical uber-Christian people. Needless to say, he wasn't allowed to play much; which is why he would come over to my house, and we'd dive into some violent like Resident Evil.

Last time I saw him--he got into of smoking and drinking with a pretty bad crowd. Sort of makes you wonder what happened.

>>1204278
>neo pagans
Hurrrr

>>1206950
What an illiterate piece of shit

I wasn't allowed to play DOOM on the SNES.

I could play the first three Mortal Kombat games, but not DOOM.


Considering my stepfather loved both DOOM and Mortal Kombat, I figured there must have been something super-scary in DOOM. The red cartridge backed up my theory.

I was allowed to play it around 14, and, having never played an FPS at the time, it kicked my ass on the easiest difficulty. Also I got into FPS games a couple years later, I didn't bother with DOOM thinking it to be too hardcore for me, until /vr/ came and I was told the PC version was miles better. Now I play quite a bit of DOOM.

My mom was actually pretty fair about these things, she understood the ESRB rating system and kept tabs on what I was playing. Sometimes she watch me play for a bit if she was worried about the content (the examples that stick in my mind are Medievil and Soul Reaver) but she never found anything so offensive as to take the game away from me. She was pretty cool about it though she wasn't a gamer herself beyond Pac-Man and Bubble Bobble.

>>1209095
Sheltered kids are much more likely to hate and actively rebel against their parents, hold grudges, and generally wind up messed in the head because they weren't properly taught right and wrong.

>>1206671
It's rather startling when you think about quickly the indifference parents have grew. When I was 14 I wanted a GTA game and my parents said no, it's too inappropriate, which is true and a fair statement.

I went to college this August. After six weeks or so I went home for the weekend. When I get back, my 12-year-old brother is playing GTA IV on the TV in the living room. I point out that he's doing that, shocked that he hadn't been stopped from playing that since my parents didn't want me to have that game at 18 (not because they thought it was inappropriate for me, but because we only have one television and they didn't want my younger siblings to see the violence in that game). They tell me they think he's old enough, despite me not being allowed when I was two years older than he was.


Honestly, what the hell is going on with kids these days, it seems like people are caring less and less about what they do.

>>1203720
wololo

>tfw I rented Conker's BFD as a kid
>tfw my dad didn't see the 17+ label, just the cute squirrel and the rare logo
he was laughing his ass off the whole time

>>1203575
My sister would Steal demo disks from Playstation magazines.
One of them had a demo for Tomba.

She would NOT let me play it usually.

Haramf.

(she did let me keep that one demo with the video of the girl taking a shower, though)

>>1211197
We also got the Unholy war demo in one of them
-Which led to us renting the game (and liking the demo better, actually)
-The game had a demo of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
-"WOW, this is a really loose adaption of Citizen Kain" I thought.
-Get Soul Reaver. Love the crap out of it.

-Let my Little brother play soul reaver.
-He impales his first vampire.
-Immediately start understanding why parents get worried about what their kids play.

Not that I made him stop. but man, thinking about how it was my baby brother doing that really made things awkward.